By: Michael Watkins Reviewed by: Glain Roberts-McCabe The Premise: In an homage to the recent US inauguration and the scrutiny being placed on President Obama, we thought we’d revisit Michael Watkins’ guidebook to navigating your first three months in a new leadership role. Watkins is an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School where he specializes […]

By: Howard Schultz Reviewed by: Glain Roberts-McCabe The Premise: In 2007, after years of recording record growth and profits, Starbucks Coffee Company started to take a rapid and brutal nose dive. With analysts and critics pronouncing the death of the coffee juggernaut, entrepreneur and founder, Howard Schultz stepped back into the business after moving away […]

Written by: Shane Snow Review by: Julie Melaschenko The Premise: Billed as a book for entrepreneurs, Shane Snow’s Smartcuts is actually a great book for anyone looking for ways to innovate, simplify or create. A smartcut is a term Snow coins to describe the way in which a person jumps a series of steps towards […]

Written by: Derek Sivers Review by: Julie Melaschenko The Premise: A short, easy to read autobiography/manifesto, this pocket book outlines 40 lessons learned by Derek Sivers in his humble rise and unusual retreat from musician to accidental online marketing sensation and back again. As an independent musician with no way to sell his own music, […]

Written by: Spenser Chapple Review by: Glain Roberts-McCabe The Premise: Spenser Chapple’s life flipped upside down when, at 17, her father had a debilitating brain-cell stroke. As she readjusted her life, she watched her mother – Fay Chapple – shift gears from a big corporate job to the life of an entrepreneur. With a vision […]

Written by: Patrick M. Lencioni Review by: Glain Roberts-McCabe The Premise: Consultant and author Patrick M. Lencioni, author of the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, tackles another business pain point in this 2004 release, Death by Meeting. In the book, Lencioni tells the story of Casey McDaniel, the founder, and CEO of Yip Software, who […]